Consolidation & Emerging Models Principal in Brighton

As a Principal in Trusteeship, Administration & DB Funding Supervision, you will oversee complex supervisory work, drive improvements across the pensions market, and lead a team delivering engagements that support better outcomes for savers. You’ll join our Consolidation & Emerging Models team, a specialist group within the Trusteeship, Administration & DB Funding Supervision Theme. The team deals with authorisation applications from various types of schemes as well as assessing and supervising Superfunds. You will provide expert judgement, and ensure your team delivers effective, risk-based assessments and supervision across a diverse and evolving landscape. You will work collaboratively with trustees/scheme managers, providers, employers, advisers, administrators, industry bodies, and internal partners to address risks, improve practices, and uphold regulatory expectations.

You Will

• Lead and develop a team of specialists, ensuring high performance, strong judgement, and delivery against TPR priorities.
• Oversee complex and high-impact interventions, providing guidance, challenge, and decision-making on escalated issues.
• Act as a senior point of expertise, ensuring assessments, recommendations, and regulatory actions are robust, timely, and evidence-based.
• Drive continuous improvement, embedding new processes and working approaches across the team and helping colleagues build capability.
• Engage proactively with trustees/scheme managers, advisers, administrators, and external stakeholders at senior levels to influence behaviours and shape outcomes.
• Identify emerging risks and trends, sharing intelligence that supports early intervention and strategic planning.
• Contribute to cross-TPR priorities, collaborating with colleagues in enforcement, policy, strategy, and analysis to deliver joined-up regulation.
• Champion TPR’s values and leadership behaviours, acting as a role model for inclusive, flexible and transparent working.

The role criteria

Essential

• Deep experience in regulation or the pensions industry, with a strong track record of delivering successful outcomes in complex environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of experienced professionals.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, and people-leadership skills.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills, with credibility up to board level.
• Strong critical thinking and sound decision-making informed by robust evaluation of evidence.
• Awareness of the financial, political, commercial, and social factors shaping the pensions landscape.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt leadership style to ensure the team is supported appropriately and to champion changes in working practices.
• Experience of acting autonomously with confidence in decision-making.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills — both for complex casework and for supporting team members.
• Knowledge of Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information principles.
• Experience of relationship management in regulatory, supervisory or pensions contexts.
• Ability to assess and interpret complex information and convert it into clear, actionable strategies.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise effectively to meet deadlines.

Desirable

• Experience using Artificial Intelligence tools to support process efficiency or decision-making.

The team

The Trusteeship, Administration and DB Supervision Theme works to enhance the system and influence the delivery of better outcomes for savers, by working through a deep understanding of market-wide risks and opportunities. There are 4 themes each focusing on specific areas of the market with a mixture of individual scheme/provider and industry-wide engagement. The Consolidation & Emerging Models team supports new models through clear, consistent assessments and supervision to protect savers, supports innovation in the interests of members, and builds market trust. The team works to be clear, efficient and effective in its assessments of Superfunds, CDC and MT schemes, in its supervision of Superfunds and in engagement in relation to transactions with them, resulting in consolidation vehicles operating with integrity, transparency and resilience. The team works closely with the Innovation Service to understand emerging models through engagement with innovators in the market.

Reward and benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Our culture

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment. Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

About The Pensions Regulator

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Diversity and inclusion

TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.

Further information

Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees. If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.